AWS Container Days @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 — Day 3

In the days leading up to Kubecon + CloudNativeCon we’ll be spending the week talking about how you can deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. These sessions, led by our AWS Kubernetes team and guest speakers, will contain technical deep dives, product demos, and best practices. Can’t wait to learn what’s happening with Amazon EKS & Kubernetes, check out the EKS Newsletter curated by our EKS Developer Advocates....

May 15, 2022 · 2 min · Chris Short

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021 — Panel Discussion: Marketing as Code: How to Rock Out with Non-Code Contributions

For new folks in the CNCF space, becoming a contributor may sound daunting, and even overwhelming. But guess what? There are tons of ways to contribute apart from code. 5 members of the Contibex Marketing working group (Kunal, Bart, Chris, Kaslin, and Matt) are all participating and contributing through positive attitudes, documentation, networking, videos, drawings, and even raps. They want to share the welcoming spirit of the CNCF where no contribution is too small, and everyone will have something to share....

October 23, 2021 · 1 min · Chris Short

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Daily Wrap Up: Tuesday — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021

Chris Short sits down with KubeCon speakers, attendees, and Cloud Native contributors for the KubeCon NA 2021 (Los Angeles) wrap up show on Day 0 of KubeCon. Download as MP4 Source: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Daily Wrap Up: Tuesday Here's a current list of ready to go CFPs and/or abstracts that I can speak to at a moments notice. If you're looking for OpenShift.tv live streams I hosted/produced/ran, search my name on OpenShift's YouTube....

October 12, 2021 · 1 min · Chris Short

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2021: How You Can Tell Your Kubernetes Contributor Story with These Tips - Matt Broberg & Chris Short, Red Hat; Kaslin Fields, Google; Peeyush Gupta, DigitalOcean

The Upstream Marketing Working Group began as a vision to connect contributors. It has grown into a set of practices, channels, and bots that unite us all across the Kubernetes community. In this talk, contributors will walk through their experience of learning to tell their own contributor story. In doing so, we will walk through how anyone can write a great story, including key takeaways around narrative, call to action (CTA), structure, and available channels....

May 7, 2021 · 2 min · Chris Short

2020 Learnings, 2021 Expectations

We’ve all had challenging years before. However, none were quite as challenging as in 2020. In the conclusion of last year’s post, I wrote, “I am hopeful that whatever economic upheaval we face as a society in 2020 is limited.” At that time, economic indicators were bubble-ish. However, a global pandemic was not something I had in the cards. No one did. A global pandemic, international protests against horrific injustices, and a US government damn near inept at helping with any of it....

December 30, 2020 · 16 min · Chris Short